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Unique Partnership Promotes Conservation through Ranching

By: Jeff Eisenberg
A group of ranching and conservation organizations have formed a broad-based coalition to enhance ranching practices that consider important conservation issues throughout the West.https://www.landcan.org/article/Unique-Partnership-Promotes-Conservation-through-Ranching/204/

 

Mississippi's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (Wildlife Action Plan)

Excerpts from Mississippi's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS) applicable to Private Landowners.https://www.landcan.org/article/Mississippis-Comprehensive-Wildlife-Conservation-Strategy-Wildlife-Action-Plan/157/

 

Hunters - A Force for Conservation

By: Breana Behrens
Hunting seasons are starting to open, making this a great time to commemorate the important role that hunters play in habitat conservation. https://www.landcan.org/article/Hunters--A-Force-for-Conservation/1646/

 

Mitigation and Conservation Banking

By: K Gregg Elliott
To many landowners a threatened or endangered (T&E) species on their property is anathema because it can herald all kinds of state and federal limitations on use of their property.& ...https://www.landcan.org/article/Mitigation-and-Conservation-Banking/71/

 

Conservation helps landowners ‘drought proof’ farms, ranches

By: USDA NRCS
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-helps-landowners-drought-proof-farms-ranches/1107/

 

Uniform Conservation Easement Act Summary

By: Uniform Law Commission
Although traditional uses of land for industrial, commercial, residential and agricultural purposes have continued, conservation and historic preservation have become important as well. https://www.landcan.org/article/Uniform-Conservation-Easement-Act-Summary/2898/

 

Cost-effective Conservation Practices

By: Michelle Wood
This article includes ideas on how to improve your operation environmentally and economically.https://www.landcan.org/article/Costeffective-Conservation-Practices/969/

 

Government, company agreementwill help farmers improve conservation practices

By: Jennifer Carrico
https://www.landcan.org/article/Government-company-agreementwill-help-farmers-improve-conservation-practices/951/

 

Conservation Easements

By: Christopher B. Johnson
One tool for estate planners is the conservation easement, by which a landowner voluntarily restricts his or her land from being developed, restricts the amount of development or protects existing features, like a building facade with historic value. https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements/223/

 

Can I Really Preserve My Land and Make Money?

By: Tax Credit Connection, Inc.
Conservation easement income tax credits are a land preservation tool available to help Colorado landowners preserve their working farms and ranches and protect wildlife habitat and scenic views. https://www.landcan.org/article/Can-I-Really-Preserve-My-Land-and-Make-Money/2255/

 

Cattleman Practices Good Conservation

By: Bonnie Coblentz
A Mississippi cattleman is using native grasses in a 200-acre intensive grazing operation that is both efficient and environmentally friendly.& ...https://www.landcan.org/article/Cattleman-Practices-Good-Conservation/948/

 

Protecting Nature, Harvesting Timber

By: Joe Rankin
How different conservation groups got into managing forestland, and the lessons they've learned. https://www.landcan.org/article/Protecting-Nature-Harvesting-Timber/875/

 

Excerpts from California's Wildlife Action Plan applicable to Private Landowners

By: Resources First Foundation - RFF
We have done the work combing through the California Plan and excerpting all of the sections that are relevant to the needs and interested of private landowners.https://www.landcan.org/article/Excerpts-from-Californias-Wildlife-Action-Plan-applicable-to-Private-Landowners/127/

 

Charitable Conservation Contribution of Real Property Sought in WI or IL

By: K Gregg Elliott
A coalition of organizations that seek to provide sanctuary, rehabilitation, neutering and adoption services for a wide range of animals is seeking a home. https://www.landcan.org/article/Charitable-Conservation-Contribution-of-Real-Property-Sought-in-WI-or-IL/149/

 

Alternatives to Real Estate Development Deriving Financial Benefits from Conservation and Mitigation Projects in Virginia - a Lender's Collateral Concerns

By: R. Lee Stephens, Jr and Robert J. Allen
In the current economic environment, landowners previously contemplating development or sale of their real property are seeking alternative ways to generate cash flow from their real property assets.https://www.landcan.org/article/Alternatives-to-Real-Estate-Development-Deriving-Financial-Benefits-from-Conservation-and-Mitigation-Projects-in-Virginia--a-Lenders-Collateral-Concerns/96/

 

Bird Conservation in Private Ponderosa Pine Forests

American Bird Conservancy (ABC), in cooperation with the American Forest Foundation, Forest Restoration Partnership, and several other partners, is working with private landowners to implement bird conservation  measures in ponderosa pine habitat throughout the western United States. https://www.landcan.org/article/Bird-Conservation-in-Private-Ponderosa-Pine-Forests/538/

 

Ranching as a Conservation Strategy - Can Old Ranchers Save the New West?

By: Mark W. Brunson and Lynn Huntsinger
Working ranches are often promoted as means of private rangeland conservation because they can safeguard ecosystem services, protect open space, and maintain traditional ranching culture. https://www.landcan.org/article/Ranching-as-a-Conservation-Strategy--Can-Old-Ranchers-Save-the-New-West/265/

 

Agricultural Conservation and the Next Farm Bill

By: Megan Stubbs;
Reauthorization of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (2008 farm bill) failed to pass in the 112th Congress, leaving it to the 113th Congress to continue the farm bill debate.https://www.landcan.org/article/Agricultural-Conservation-and-the-Next-Farm-Bill/903/

 

Turning Conservation Easement Tax Credits Into Cash - What Should I Expect?

By: Tax Credit Connection, Inc.
Once you have preserved your land with a conservation easement, you might be wondering exactly how you will turn the conservation easement income tax credits you received into cash. https://www.landcan.org/article/Turning-Conservation-Easement-Tax-Credits-Into-Cash--What-Should-I-Expect/2251/

 

Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah

By: Utah Department of Natural Resources
Utah’s Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse is designed to protect high-quality habitat, enhance impaired habitat and restore converted habitat to support conservation and restoration of the portion of the greater sage-grouse population within the State. https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Plan-for-Greater-Sagegrouse-in-Utah/2214/